Hey everyone, and welcome to another bit of WoW History! Every week, we look down at important events that happened in WoW (or Blizzard!) for that week.

How's everyone preparing for Christmas? As we approach the holidays, we check out a few Micro Holidays and the Holiday that started all holidays in WoW, the Feast of Winter Veil!

2016

December 12th, 2016

On this day, 2 micro-holidays were uncovered on the PTR: Un'Goro Madness and Glowcap Festival!

Un'Goro Madness happens between March 17th and 19th. The Dinosaurs of Un'Goro Crater are growing extra restless, so players are invited to the lush zone to tame them down! During the holiday, elite, max-level dinosaurs will roam around the zone.

Together with the elite dinosaurs, we'll see updated versions of classic Un'Goro rares (such as Clutchmother Zavas), new renditions of classic Un'Goro fixtures (like the ghost of Dadanga, killed during the Cataclysm) and other assorted rares. Killing any of them gives your entire party Dino Mojo, used to give you random evolution buffs, like Adaptation: Poisonous Skin.

Glowcap Festival happens in May 27th. On this day, the sporelings of Sporeggar in Zangarmarsh hold their annual mushroom festival, where they will revere Fshoo, the Great Glowcap. Fshoo will spawn in the middle of Sporeggar and grow, eventually wilting away. You can keep Fshoo alive by healing him or using items like Sack of Healing Spores and Fungal Lifestalk, lootable nearby.

Once Fshoo eventually dies, you'll receive Sporeggar reputation for every stack of Fshoo Grow it had on its death. This makes the micro-holiday a nice and quick way to grind Sporeggar reputation to Exalted.

2015

December 12th, 2015

On this day, during the Legion beta, Stormheim became available for testing!

Stormheim is a Vrykul-centered zone that focuses on the conflict between the Horde and the Alliance. Sylvanas wants to find a way to create more Val'kyr, and Greymane finds this to be the perfect opportunity to finally get his revenge over the death of his son, that happened during the Worgen starting zone questline.

Along the way, you learn more about vrykul lore, interacting with their deities and even going to their purgatory! The zone is home to the Halls of Valor dungeon as well as the Warrior Class Hall. The storyline of the zone is finished in the Trial of Valor raid, which wasn't included in the expansion's launch.

This item puts the fruit hat on top of your head and has you dancing the conga! It works with other transformations (a highlight being with Pepe via Trans-Dimensional Bird Whistle, making him Pepe sit comfortable among the fruit), and if used on your Garrison, your followers and the NPCs will slowly join you on the conga line!

2010

December 13th, 2010

On this day, Blizzard implemented a new PvP System: War Games, where players can challenge each other to Battleground or Arena matches for fun.

Those can be created with the PvP interface or by using the text commands /wargame or /wg. Using these commands, you can challenge another group of players to a match in any of the current battlegrounds or arenas, maybe to settle up something, maybe because you're bored: those do not give honor or rewards.

This system was expanded from Arena Skirmishes and was launched with PvP Season 9. Before Warlords of Draenor, you could only challenge people from your own realm, but this has since been changed so you can also challenge someone via battletag, and with it, people from other realms.

2004

Patch 1.2.0 is here! Mysteries of Maraudon is the first content patch in the history of World of Warcraft. Highlights of the patch include:

New Dungeon: Maraudon - In the depths of Desolace, lies the earthen tomb of Zaetar, fallen Keeper of the Grove and Son of Cenarius. Zaetar rejected his heritage once he joined together with the earthen Princess Theradras, and together, they gave birth to the misshapen Centaur race, who slew Zaetar for being part of their cursed creation. Theradras, afraid of Cenarius' wrath, stole Zaetar's body and brought it to the secret sanctuary inside Maraudon, where she watches over to this day.

Gurubashi Arena: The arena located in Stranglethorn Vale is now a free for all PvP area! Later on, the chest event would be added to give the place a bigger reward.

Cloak and Helm graphics: An option was added to the Interface, allowing you to not display your helm or cloak, if you so wish.

Feast of Winter Veil

Together with Patch 1.2.0, the first WoW event was launched, the Feast of Winter Veil! The event is the in-game counterpart of Christmas and other end of year events. The Smokywood Pastures, composed of the Jinglepocket and Copperpinch family of goblins appear in all capital cities to share their holiday goodies!

During the Feast of Winter Veil, several WoW bosses also appear to share on the holiday cheer, wearing santa hats and even dropping their Red Winter Hats! And on December 25th, the giant Christmas Tree in Ironforge and Orgrimmar will also have gifts for your WoW characters!

Comments

Comment by VikzeLink

on 2017-12-14T10:50:47-06:00

Ah, good old Maraudon! It's still so beautiful in there

Comment by Kanariya

on 2017-12-14T12:02:29-06:00

Mauradon is such a good dungeon, and it was fun trying to get to the side you wanted thru the uninstanced area of it. It's a shame Dungeon Finder removes an entire chunk of it from being seen unless people stay after, and that the uninstanced area is completely obsolete.

Comment by Aenwyrm

on 2017-12-14T12:09:31-06:00

Maraudon, that's about the time I started playing wow. Ah, memories.

Comment by wisedada

on 2017-12-14T13:17:48-06:00

Maraudon! I remember The Scepter of Celebras being a thing, I still wield the staff as a nostalgia from time to time. Good times!

Comment by Cyberium

on 2017-12-15T19:03:43-06:00

I miss the old instances where they were like a maze, with equal amount of lore and you need to pick up quest from all over the world to piece together et the whole story.

Comment by wtfakakali

on 2017-12-16T11:06:27-06:00

This always gets me kinda nostalgic. :/

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